episode_0147

Adria Battle (8)

Yuno briefly breathed a sigh of relief when he safely arrived at the 3rd villa where he lived while in the imperial palace.

‘good. I got in safely. If I could have gotten in this easily, Catherine would have gotten in without much difficulty. Catherine is much better at infiltration than me, so you don’t have to worry about it.’

There were two guards guarding the entrance, but they were instantly knocked unconscious by Yuno’s hand blade, and Yuno entered the villa and expanded his spirit.

‘Let’s see~ It must be here… That’s right! found!!’

Yuno’s sense of humor quickly found the hidden children. As expected in advance, Yuno could sense the presence of about 2,000 children in Yuno’s underground training center, so Yuno suppressed his presence and went downstairs as carefully as possible.

“I’m hungry. I miss mom~”

“When are you letting us out?”

“Be quiet!! You guys! Even men have no choice when it comes to food. I’ll send it to you when the time comes”

When I stuck my head out and took a peek inside, I saw about a dozen soldiers comforting children who had been taken hostage and about 2,000 children with their limbs tied.

‘Luckily, there don’t seem to be any children under the age of five. Well, you have to be over the age of five to listen to them… Still, seeing as they are comforting the children, it looks like they are not mean-spirited, unlike Heinrich’s soldiers… Don’t kill them, just faint them moderately. ‘I have to do it’

Yuno carefully climbed up, placing his hands and feet on the ceiling.

‘If caught, the children could become hostages. You have to fall on their heads and subdue them instantly.’

On the way up, an unfortunate incident occurred when he made eye contact with a little girl, but perhaps thanks to Yuno’s handsome face, when he put his finger to her lips and made a gesture to be quiet, the girl realized that she was the one who had come to rescue her and nodded. He gave me a knowing look.

Thanks to the child’s cooperation, Yuno reached the center of the ceiling without being detected and fell behind the soldiers without making a single sound.

Then, without giving the soldiers a chance to scream, Yuno struck the backs of their necks one by one, knocking them unconscious, completing the suppression in an instant.

‘Hehehe, looking at things like this, wouldn’t I be quite useful even if I were an assassin? ‘Catherine really taught me a lot of different things.’

Several children looked at Yuno, who was inwardly praising herself, with wide, surprised eyes and spoke to her.

“Who… who are you?”

“Are you here to save us?”

“What happened to my mom and dad?”

“Ugh I miss my mom!! I want to go home~”

As some children started talking, they finally noticed Yuno’s appearance and started screaming wildly.

“Quiet! quietly!! My name is Juno, Third Prince of the Balkan Empire. You are fighting against the evil Heinrich who forced your mom and dad to fight and captured you like this. So you guys need to be quiet and help me so you can go see mom and dad. Okay, everyone will be quiet, right?”

The children immediately became quiet when Yuno told them to cooperate if they want to see mom and dad.

Yuno smiled for a moment at the sight of the children and first released the ropes of the older-looking children, and then used the ropes to bind the unconscious soldiers.

He then gave the soldiers’ weapons to the released children and instructed them to release other children as well. And while watching the children being released one by one, Yuno prepared to move again and held the hand of the child who appeared to be the leader.

“You guys have to take care of your younger siblings. Free the other children here. If you do that, I will come back soon”

“Where are you going? Can you stay with us?”

While stroking the heads of the children who were looking anxious, Yuno informed them that there were other children in the building next door and that they would just wait a moment and they would be there to rescue them.

“Okay. I will release all my friends and younger siblings and wait patiently here. His Royal Highness”

“Just call me hyung, Yonseok. It’s hard for a young person to pretend to be an adult”

The children were even more reassured by Yuno’s friendly attitude towards them, and seeing them like that, Yuno quickly headed to the empress’ palace.

Yuno was able to quickly enter the empress’ palace because it was right next to it.

Just like in her own villa, many children were held captive in the empress’ palace.

Yuno, who quickly suppressed the soldiers there, quickly released the children and then joined the children of the 3 villas and headed to the backyard garden.

Normally, this was a place where the Guard Knights would have been standing guard, but fortunately, the Guard Knights had all surrendered to him, so there were only a few garrison members standing guard, and they were all subdued by Yuno’s hand.

‘Let’s see… the secret passage I used… yes, it’s here.’

He wondered what would happen if the secret passage he used was closed, but fortunately, the passage still existed.

‘Well… what kind of crazy person would take a close look at the back of the women’s restroom in the palace garden? I was grabbed by my mother and the head maid and was forcibly dragged to the women’s restroom when I found it, so it’s unusual.’

It was a little embarrassing to think about those times, but Yuno opened the passage and looked inside to let the children escape anyway. When there was nothing wrong, she looked at the children and explained how to move forward.

“Guys, if you go in here and look at the other side of the castle wall, you will see a brightly lit field in the field. If you go there and say that the Third Prince sent you, your mom and dad can be released. Do you understand?”

When the children nodded that they understood, Yuno pushed the child who had led the children all the way to this point into the passage first.

“Wait, what’s your name?”

“Centrice”

“Yes. Sentress. You have to take care of your kids! Because you are the boss. Got it?”

“Yes. All right. His Royal Highness”

Coo~

“I told you to call me brother…”

As Yuno lightly fed the children with honey chestnuts, Sentress nodded again with tears in her eyes from the pain, and Yuno told them to leave and began to help the children escape behind Sentress.

“Now, hurry, hurry!! No time!”

Time was running out because we had to escape thousands of children, but unlike ourselves, who had been very tall since childhood, the commoner children were very small, so we were able to quickly escape by pushing three or four people into the passage, and it took about 30 minutes. As Jennifer and Catherine brought in an additional 4,000 children, Yuno continued to let them escape as well.

“I could have everyone escape in about an hour… But it seems like the numbers are a bit lacking?”

“So…I guess I missed something?”

“Hmm~ There is no place worth hiding it… Ah!!”

It was only then that it occurred to Yuno that there was one place missing.

“Ah!! The 2nd villa!! Why did I miss this place!! Damn it!!”

Juno, who thought that Henry, who ascended to the throne would only use the main palace, had inadvertently left out the second palace, was blaming himself and tried to run to the second palace.

“No, Yuno!! There’s no time anymore!!”

“That’s right. master!! It’s dangerous! I counted the numbers and there were probably less than a hundred kids there. If that’s the case, the master has done enough!!”

Catherine and Jennifer tried to stop her, saying it was dangerous, but Yuno was stubborn.

“No. There’s still about an hour left until dawn. In the meantime, I’ll be back soon”

“Then me too!!”

“I will go too, master!”

“No. If we all go together, there won’t be much difference in search time. So Jennifer and Catherine, help the kids escape from here. Because the garrison might notice and come”

“Do you have to come here safely? Because I will definitely wait here”

“If there are any children left, you have no choice but to come here, right? The master’s bitch wizard Jennifer will be waiting with her secret trick ready”

“I understand. Catherine, Jennifer. I’ll definitely be back within an hour, so just wait a little longer!”

Yuno comforted Jennifer and Catherine, who were worried about her, by kissing them on the lips and quickly ran towards the second villa.

After a while, Yuno arrived at the 2nd villa and clicked his tongue at the surveillance network, which was on a different level from the 3rd villa and the empress’ palace.

‘what? What is Heinrich hiding here that’s why he’s placed so many defenders?’

The hundred or so guards guarding the second villa were not tempted by Ah Jin and maintained a strict surveillance posture.

‘Hmm~ It may be possible to infiltrate, but if there are children, it is almost impossible to take them out. Should I give up?’

As Yuno was thinking about giving up, the image of the parents of the children who had fallen from the castle wall crying miserably came to mind, and Yuno had to grit her teeth.

‘shit!! First, let’s find out whether there are children or not. There will be a way somehow!!’

Yuno decided to enter the second villa, thinking that the situation was up to no good, and even succeeded in sneaking in carefully by following the shadow.

‘Okay… if I unfold my spirit here… huh?’

However, Yuno’s head was tilted as there was no sign of anything other than the presence of the soldiers outside.

‘This… this can’t be happening? Is there really nothing? No… If you think that way, the tight security outside doesn’t make sense… There’s definitely something here.’

In the end, Yuno decided to search through the second villa.

Fortunately, there was no security inside, perhaps because there was tight security on the outside.

‘Or maybe there’s something in the troops that serve him that he doesn’t want to be discovered… Anyway, there’s nothing in the bedroom… Shall we take a look at the office as well?’

Juno, who found no clues in Heinrich’s bedroom, went into the office next door and looked around.

‘hmm? Why are the books still on the bookshelf? If he had the personality, even if he ascended to the throne, he would have taken all the books he was reading…’

Thinking that the bookshelf was suspicious, Juno began to search the bookshelf more closely, and as he did so, a financial theory book written by Heinrich caught his eye.

‘That’s the book he wrote, right? Contrary to his personality, he said that even Rachel would approve of him in terms of finance… Tsk tsk, it’s a waste of talent. It’s a waste.’

As I took out the book, thinking that if I hadn’t been so greedy, I could have been the Minister of Finance assisting Prinz, the bookshelf suddenly started to move to the side.

“Uh…huh? What is this?”

After the bookshelf was completely pushed away, a staircase was revealed in the dark space, and Juno rushed into the darkness, convinced that this was the space where Heinrich was hiding.

*Illustration of battle attire for Jennifer, the female wizard who follows Yuno